Reset

"It's time we hit America's reset button," says Mark Almond's article in William Rees-Mogg's usual Mail on Sunday column, apparently not yet online.

The piece is superb, making a number of points that have been made here about the true history of relations between the United Kingdom and the United States.

As well as pointing out that America turned against Japan, and therefore demanded that we cut our naval alliance with her, because of her demands for equality for Japanese-Americans.

And that America's efforts to detach Commonwealth countries from the Sterling Area forced us back onto the Gold Standard in 1925, sending our manufacturing industries into depression and thus causing the 1926 General Strike.

It is also always good to be reminded that MI6 told Blair explicitly that there were no WMD in Iraq.